Overview
- Pune-based Ashish Bagade listed himself as CEO or co-CEO of Anysphere on LinkedIn despite no affiliation with the startup.
- Venture capitalist Zach DeWitt surfaced the mismatch on X, posting screenshots that drew wide attention.
- PitchBook also showed Bagade as co-CEO, indicating the inaccurate claim flowed from social media into a prominent financial database.
- Anysphere, the San Francisco AI firm behind the Cursor coding assistant, was founded in 2022 and is led solely by CEO Michael Truell.
- The case prompted criticism of LinkedIn’s lack of title verification and questions about PitchBook’s vetting, with experts urging users to verify professional claims.